Counselling parents in Youth Mental Health Care: A design for structured communication of diagnosis and treatment options

Structured Shared Decision Making in Youth Mental Health Care to lower decisional conflict of parents and to promote acceptance of recommended treatment for their child compared with counselling as usual

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN38536761

Enrollment

Registered

2011-05-11

Start date

2008-05-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-01-13

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Conditions

Counselling parents on child psychiatric disorders Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

Counselling in dialogue (CD): a systematic counselling procedure using dialogue as communication style and visualisation as communication and information processing aid. Parents of 78 children (up to

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All parents (men and women) of children (age < 12 year) referred to the participating therapists of two youth mental health care centres who received counselling from May 2008 till August 2009

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Emergency references and parents of children, aged 12 year or older

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Decisional conflict in parents using the decisional conflict scale 2. Decisional conflict in therapists using the provider decision process assessment instrument Measured before the counselling, immediately after counselling, and one week after counselling.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Qualitative aspects, judged by all participants 2. The possibilities to apply and implement counselling in dialogue	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026